Cutter-head



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, CUTTER HEAD. No. 339,825. Patentedggry 1886.

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CHARLES E. TEMPLE, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,825, dated April 13, 1886,

Application filed January 9, 1886.

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. TEMPLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Gutters and Heads,of which the followingis a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in cutters and heads for making molding, matching flooring, 8.30.; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is partly a front elevation and partly a vertical section. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the inner side of one of the side plates of the head with one of the cutters attached thereto. Figs. t, 5, and 6 are diagrams.

A represents the cutter-head,which is conr posed of the circular side plates, B, and the bolts 0, that connect the side plates together, the said bolts extending transversely through the side plates and having clamping-nuts D on their threaded ends. The plates B are provided with central openings, through which the shaft ofa common molding-machi ne passes, and to which shaft the cutter is designed to be secured. On the opposing faces of the side plates are formed tangentially-arranged tongues F, which project from annular rabbets G, formed on the inner sides of the plates at their outer edges.

H represents the cutters, which form segments of a ring and are sharpened at both ends. The outer sides or faces of these outters are cut in the form of the molding to be made, and in the edges of the cutters are made grooves or channels I, which are concentric with the faces of the cutters. The cutters are secured between the opposing sides of the cutter-head, and the tangential tongues F fit in the grooves in the sides of the cutters, and thus secure the latter tangentially. to the head, thus causing only the cutting end of each cutter to come in contact with the board and preventing the faces of the rapidly-revolving Serial No. 188,133. (No model.)

cutters from rubbing against the molding as it is formed and burning and defacing it by the excessive friction. The cutters, by being sharpened at both ends, are made reversible. The cutters are so shaped as to cut a molding, say such as shown in the diagram Fig. 4. By reversing one of the cutters and allow ing the other to remain as before a double molding can be cut in the form shown in Fig. 5, and by reversing both cutters a molding, being the reverse of the form shown in Fig. 4, is produced, as shown at Fig. 6. I am thus enabled to make three different forms of molding with the same cutters.

If preferred, the tongues on the sides of the culter-head and the grooves in the sides of the cutters may be omitted, and the cutters secured in the cutter-head by means of dowelplllS.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination, with the cutter-head, of the segmental cutters secured thereto and tangentially therewith, and having cuttingedges arranged transversely on the cutterhead and parallel with the axis thereof, for the purpose set forth, substantially as described. I 2. The combination of the cutter-head having the side plates provided with the rabbets in their outer edges on their opposing faces,

and the tangential'tongues F, with the segmental cutters having the transverse cuttingedges and sharpened at both ends, and there by rendered reversible, the said cutters having segmental grooves I on their opposite sides concentric with their faces, whereby the cutters can be secured in the cutter-head and tangentially thereto, to cause only the trans verse cutting-edges to come in contact with the wood while the cutter-head is rotating, for the purpose set forth, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. TEMPLE.

Vitnesses:

MORTON G. RANKIN, JACOB P. BEAM. 

